PHILADELPHIA—For all the talk about how an offseason of spring camps would bring out the best from their quarterback and get their defense on the same page, the reality is this for the Eagles after six games in 2012: They’re exactly one game better than at this time last year.

Last year, you may recall, was considered an abject disaster. The team loaded up in free agency and pinned its Super Bowl hopes on Michael Vick, then slogged through one turnover-plagued game after another and blew one late-game lead after another to finish 8-8 and miss the playoffs.

Turnovers and blown leads were thematic again Sunday afternoon Philadelphia's stunning 26-23 overtime home loss to the Lions, a game in which the Eagles led by 10 with about five minutes to play before their whole world unraveled.

Now they enter the bye week an entire week to ponder if they’re really much better than last year’s disappointing team.

“This is pretty bad, just because it was a big game for us, having lost last week and then going into a bye week and the schedule only gets tougher from here,” cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha said. “This one really hurts, and it would have helped us going into the bye week.”

The Eagles have lost three of their past four games and they have issues all over the map. Vick’s turnover total ballooned to 13 after he threw two more interceptions. The defensive line that was supposed to scare the bejeezus out of everyone hasn’t registered a sack in three weeks.

The offensive line can’t seem to handle the weekly doses of blitzes thrown at them and the defense, which seemed to have a killer instinct in the first two wins, collapsed down the stretch for the second time in two weeks.

The Lions, who couldn’t do anything for the better part of three quarters, erupted for 20 points in the game’s final 20 minutes to win 26-23 in overtime.

The Eagles were minutes from improving to 4-2 and generating that feeling they could overcome the problems that plagued them all season. Now, they’re out of answers for their latest setback.

“Pretty much, don’t know what to say,” Vick said afterward. “We put ourselves in position to win games and we don’t finish. It’s hard to decipher what mistakes are being made and what’s going on.”

The problem with a 3-3 record is that it puts the Eagles on pace to finish 8-8—the exact same record they managed last year.

Before the season, owner Jeffrey Lurie made it clear he needed to see substantial improvement in order for coach Andy Reid to keep his job and stick around for season No. 15.

They’ve shown nothing close to substantial improvement so far and Reid, possibly feeling the heat, isn’t sticking to old habits.

The veteran coach usually gives his players off for the entire bye week but several players acknowledged there’s a team meeting and film review scheduled for Monday and there’s no guarantee they’re free to go afterward.

“If he feels like we need to stay here, then we definitely have to work here and I think everyone should just agree with it and stay here and work,” right tackle Todd Herremans said. “We’ll see after we see the film and everything tomorrow where his feelings are on that. I think we definitely have some things we need to correct this week.”

Reid’s teams historically play their best ball after the bye week, evidenced by his 13-0 record in the first game coming out of the bye. He has one the NFL’s best November and December records.

In three of the four seasons they’ve started 3-3 under Reid (2001, 2003 and 2008), the Eagles not only made the postseason but ended up in the NFC Championship Game, so nobody should dismiss them before Halloween.

“We’re obviously not where we want to be right now but we’ve got divisional games coming up, we’ve still got 10 games left. We’re by no means out of it or anything like that,” safety Nate Allen said. “We’ve just got to learn from it and keep playing.”

Learn from it? With the same mistakes happening over and over again, you really wonder if they can.